Paddington 2 : A charmer all the way
*ing: Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw Rated: 7/10 Well, the cute bear is back, lending quite a few of his signatures awww moments in London. Same as original, he is with the Browns whose two kids are obviously grown up from the last time they smuggled Paddington into the house for him to get permanent residency in human enclosures with all the human trappings — the love, the belonging, the fun and the frolic. All in all, it is big-time family time film which the viewers will savour with similar emotions of love and indulgence. The good — and somewhat rare — thing about this No 2 in the Paddington series is that it is as good as if not better than the first one when Paddington found a home and was being eternally in danger of being hunted down by some lab-museum freaks. This time round, no such existential problems but for a pop-up London book which Paddington wants to gift to his au...